Elon Musk’s Twitter nonetheless seems to be scuffling with flip its subscription service, Twitter Blue, right into a cash maker.

Based on The Data, the corporate now plans to cost $7 for Twitter Blue if customers pay for it by way of the net, and $11 in the event that they pay for it by way of its iPhone app.

That is in all probability a approach to compensate for Apple’s 30% reduce (typically known as Apple Tax) on apps purchased by way of the App Retailer (supplied the app’s developer makes greater than $1 million per 12 months by way of the App Retailer).

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As MacRumors identified, Apple doesn’t object to builders charging extra for subscriptions by way of an iPhone app than they do on the net, with one instance being Spotify, who has been important of the Apple Tax many occasions previously. The corporate fees $9.99 for a month-to-month subscription on the net and $12.99 by way of Apple’s App Retailer, and at one level it even urged prospects to unsubscribe at Apple and re-subscribed by way of the net.

Musk not too long ago had a short-lived spat with Apple, through which he complained concerning the Apple Tax, claimed that Apple has threatened to ban Twitter from its App Retailer, and mentioned he was able to construct his personal smartphone ought to Apple do something of the type. Following a gathering with Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Musk mentioned he had a “good dialog” with Cook dinner, who reassured him that Apple by no means think about eradicating Twitter from its App Retailer.

To make cash off of Twitter Blue – with or with out Apple Tax – Twitter first wants to determine what it desires to do with it.

After making Twitter’s “Official” blue checkmark a perk of Twitter Blue, which precipitated a wave of impersonations and pretend information on the platform, Twitter made the subscription service unavailable because it, as Musk put it, wanted “some tweaks.” Amongst different upcoming modifications, Musk mentioned there’ll finally be three checkmarks in numerous colours: gold for corporations, gray for governments, and blue for people, with all accounts manually authenticated earlier than the examine is activated. Twitter Blue’s relaunch has been delayed a number of occasions already, and there is not any set date for its return at writing time.